PROCUL hinc, o procul efto informis Ægrimonia,

Quam janitori Obfcuritas nigerrima
Sufcepit olim Cerbero,

Defertam in caveâ Stygis profundâ,
Horribiles inter formas, vifufque profanos,
Obfcoenofque ululatus,

Incultam licet invenire fedem,
Nox ubi parturiens

Zelotypis furtim nido fuperincubat als
Queriturque triftis noctua,

Sub denfis illic ebenis fcopulifque .cavatis,
Veftri rugofis more fupercilii,

Æternùm maneas Cimmeriâ in domo.

Sed huc propinquet comis et pulcherrima,
Quæ nympha divis audit Euphrofyne choris,
Patiens tamen vocatur à mortalibus
Medicina cordis hilaritas, quam candida
Venus duabus infuper cum Gratiis
Dias Lyæo, patri in auras edidit:

Sive ille ventus (cæteri ut Myftæ canunt)
Jocundus aurâ qui ver implet melleâ,
Zephyrus puellam amplexus eft Tithoniam
Quondam calendis feriatam Maiis,
Tunc pallidis genuit fuper violariis,
Super et rofarum rofcidâ lanugine,
Alacrem, beatam, vividamque filiam.

VOL. II.]

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Agedum

Hafte thee, nymph, and bring with thee
Jeft and youthful Jollity,

Quips and cranks and wanton wiles,
Nods and becks, and wreathed fmiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple fleek;
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his fides ;
Come, and trip it as you go,
On the light fantastic toe:

And in thy right hand lead with thee
The mountain Nymph, fweet Liberty;
And if I give thee honour due,
Mirth, admit me of thy crew,

To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreproved pleasures free ;
To hear the lark begin his fight,
And finging startle the dull night,
From his watch-tow'r in the skies,
Till the dappled dawn doth rife;
Then to come in fpight of forrow,'
And at my window bid good-morrow,
Thro' the fweet-briar, or the vine,
Or the twifted eglantine:
While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin;
And to the stack or the barn-boor,
Stoutly fruts his dames before.

Oft

Agedum puella, quin pari vadant gradu
Jocus et Juventas, Scommata et Protervitas,
Dolufque duplex, nutus et ni&atio,
Tenuifque rifus huc et huc contortilis ;
Qualis venuft pendet Hebes in genâ,
Amatque jungi lævibus gelafinis ;
Curæ fequatur Ludus infeftus nigræ, et
Laterum Cachinnus pinguium fruftra tenax.
Agite caterva ludat exultim levis,
Pedefque dnlcis fublevet lafcivia ;
Dextrumque claudat alma Libertas latus,
Oreadum palantium fuaviffima;

Et, fi tuis honoribus non defui,
Me fcribe veftræ, læta Virgo, familiæ,
Ut illius fimul et tui confortio
Liberrimâ juvenemur innocentiâ ;
Ut cum volatus aufpicatur concitos;
Stupidamque alauda voce noctem territat;
Levata cœleftem in pharon diluculò,
Priùfque gilvum quam rubet crepufculum.
Tunc ad feneftras (anxii nolint, velint)
Diem precemur profperam vicinia,
Caput exerentes e rofis fylveftribus,
Seu vite, five flexili cynofbato.

Dum Martius clamore Gallus vivido
Tenuem laceffit in fugâ caliginem,

Graditurve farris ad ftruem, vel horreum,

Dominæ præeuns, graduque grandi glorians,

Oft lift'ning how the hounds and horn
Chearly roufe the flumb'ring morn,
From the fide of fome hoar hill,
Thro' the high wood echoing fhrill.
Sometimes walking not unfeen

By edge-row elms, on hillocks green,
Right against the eastern gate,
Where the great fun begins his ftate,
Rob'd in flames, and amber light,
The clouds in thousand liveries dight.
While the ploughman near at hand,
"Whistles o'er the furrow'd land,
And the milkmaid fingeth blithe,
And the mower whets his fcythe,
And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.

Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures,
Whilft the landskip round it measures,
Ruffet lawns, and fallows grey,
Where the nibbling flocks do ftray;
Mountains, on whofe barren breaft
The labouring clouds do often reft,
. Meadows trim with daizies pied,
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide:
Tow'rs and battlements its fees
Bofom'd high in tufted trees,
Where perhaps fome beauty lies
The Cyncfure of neighbouring eyes.

Hard

Sæpe audiamus ut canes et cornua
Sonore læto mane fopitum cient,

Dum quà præalti clivus albefcit jugi,
Docilis canora reddit Echo murmura.

Mox, tefte multo, quà virent colles, vager,
Ulmofque fepes ordinatas implicat,

Eoa ftans apricus ante limina,

Ubi fol corufcum magnus inftaurat diem
Veftitus igni, lucidoque fuccino,

Inter micantûm mille formas nubium.
Vicinus agrum dum colonus tranfmeat,
Atque æmulatur ore fiftulam rudi,
Mul&tramque portat cantitans puellula,
Falcique cotem meffor aptat ftridulæ,
Suamque paftor quifque garrit fabulam,
Reclinis in convalle, fubter arbuto.
Mox illecebras oculus arripuit novas,
Dum longus undiquaque profpectus patet,
Canum novale, et fufca faltûs

æquora,

Quà pecora gramen demetunt vagantia ;
Sublimium fterilia terga montium,
Qui ponderofa fæpe torquent nubila,
Maculofa vernis prata paffim bellibus,
Amnes vadofi, et latiora flumina.

Pinnafque murorum, atque turres cernere eft
Criftata circùm quas coronant robora,
Ubi forte quædam nympha fallit, cui decor
Viciniam (cynofura tanquam) illuminat.